Shameless roles

[Ghostrider84]

What do you consider to be the most shameless role, an actor took.....
Ya know, he took the role basically for the paycheck

my list includes

Deniro - Rocky and Bullwinkle
Christopher Walken - Click, Joe Dirt, Envy... Wedding Crashers...
Marlon Brando - Island of Dr. Moroeu, Superman
Eddie Murphy - Dr Doolittle 1 & 2, Pluto Nash, BHC 3, Nutty Proffessor 2
Judi Dench - Chronicles of Riddick
Jack Nicholson - Anger Management
Adam Sandler - everything except punch drunk love and spanglish

more coming soon

 

[Matt]

What do you consider to be the most shameless role, an actor took.....
Ya know, he took the role basically for the paycheck

my list includes

Deniro - Rocky and Bullwinkle
Christopher Walken - Click, Joe Dirt, Envy... Wedding Crashers...

Wedding Crashers was good.

Marlon Brando - Island of Dr. Moroeu, Superman
Eddie Murphy - Dr Doolittle 1 & 2, Pluto Nash, BHC 3, Nutty Proffessor 2
Judi Dench - Chronicles of Riddick
Jack Nicholson - Anger Management
Adam Sandler - everything except punch drunk love and spanglish

What about Adam Sandler in The Wedding Singer?

 

[GhostPoet]

Wedding Crashers wasn't funny. At all.

And
Arnold as Mr. Freezer.

 

[livrule]

90% of Ben Kingsley's roles.

An amazing actor but he has made some serious dross.

 

[The Chairman]

Charlton Heston and the entire voice cast of Cats & Dogs
Al Pacino and Christopher Walken in Gigli
Bill Murray in Garfield and Garfield: A Tail Of Two Cities
James Woods and Tim Curry in Scary Movie 2
The entire cast of the Star Wars prequel trilogy
Kate Hudson in just about every movie she's done post-Almost Famous
Sean Connery in Never Say Never Again
Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day
Christopher Walken in a lot of movies
Leslie Nielsen in Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4
Everything by DeNiro post-Analyze This

 

[matrix_ghost]

What do you consider to be the most shameless role, an actor took.....
Ya know, he took the role basically for the paycheck

my list includes

Deniro - Rocky and Bullwinkle
Christopher Walken - Click, Joe Dirt, Envy... Wedding Crashers...
Marlon Brando - Island of Dr. Moroeu, Superman
Eddie Murphy - Dr Doolittle 1 & 2, Pluto Nash, BHC 3, Nutty Proffessor 2
Judi Dench - Chronicles of Riddick
Jack Nicholson - Anger Management
Adam Sandler - everything except punch drunk love and spanglish

more coming soon

I wouldn't exactly qualify those roles are bad simply because of the paycheck.
Especially if the actor as acted well in those roles , i'd say that he/she earned that money and gave the audience it'smoney worth.
Not every movie has Oscar winning performances and not every actor or actress gives an Oscar winning performance however they should give a good performance.

If you have a great actor and basically acts like a drone and still gets his paycheck , then that actor should be named in this thread.

Considering that Christopher Walken has made crappy movies in the past ( The Prophecy , GIGLI) , i wouldn't put him on the lost for Wedding Crashers and Click.
Same with Nicholson who was hilarious IMO in ANger Management.
And Sandler began as a comedic acter and to be taken seriously he Punch Drunk Love and Spanglish. So yeah i wouldn't say that those movies aren't bad cause that's how he started.

Look at Jim Carrey or Tom Hanks who began with really crappy movies.

If you really want an actor who simply cashes in paycheck and acts like a drone :
Every latest movie with Robert De Niro ( hopefully the film that Matthew Vaugh is directing won't be a waste of his talents)
Also Ben Kingsley in A Sound Of Thunder .
John Malkovich in his commercial movies ( Eragon , Johnny English )

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Deniro - Rocky and Bullwinkle

Totally.

 

[Max J Power]

Any recognizable actor in a Uwe Boll movie.

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

Jon Voight in Pearl Harbor. Actually, any actor of stature in any Bay movie.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Halle in CINO.

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

Halle in CINO.

Well, she isn't really that respected or regarded IMO to qualify.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

What do you consider to be the most shameless role, an actor took.....
Ya know, he took the role basically for the paycheck

my list includes

Deniro - Rocky and Bullwinkle
Christopher Walken - Click, Joe Dirt, Envy... Wedding Crashers...
Marlon Brando - Island of Dr. Moroeu, Superman
Eddie Murphy - Dr Doolittle 1 & 2, Pluto Nash, BHC 3, Nutty Proffessor 2
Judi Dench - Chronicles of Riddick
Jack Nicholson - Anger Management
Adam Sandler - everything except punch drunk love and spanglish

more coming soon

Completely and utterly disagree with the bolded parts.

 

[Shifty]

The thing about Christopher Walken in Wedding Crashers was that it was marketed as "Christopher Walken in Wedding Crashers" - audiences expected the good ol'crazy Walken we've seen and did not get that. Even the Walken we did we see, wasn't funny at all. He was wasted and the role could've gone to someone else. MILF Jane Seymour was funnier than Walken. If you bring Walken in he should do what is expected, be bat**** crazy, he added nothing to the very funny film.